[OLPC India] BJP on FOSS fence: Campaigns vs Markets

[Saju Varghese]

Friends,can anyone give me some inputs for getting few OLPC ordered?

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Satish Jha <satish at laptop.org> wrote:

> I am not sure if campaigns have changed purchasing policies in India. Will
> be glad to know about some examples.
>
> That said, "Sugar on a Stick" is good idea and sounds fun as a name as
> well, amost like a lollypop..
>
> One key aspect of open source or not for profit initiatives is that they do
> not recognise the value of sales and marketing. But consider this. When a
> buyer has multiple choices, multiple vendors making a case by every possible
> means about the superiority and value of their product, the campaigns
> become more of a noise and reverberate among those interested in them until
> they gain a critical mass and momentum to override the market logic.
>
> Then again, campaigns making technology choices have a huge question mark
> hanging over them.. A bit like Taliban imposing values on the rest of the
> society... Choices need to be made through a process that allow various
> competing questions to be addressed and resolved through an agreeable set of
> criteria..
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Maybe we can start a campaign to run Sugar on a Stick or Sugar on QEMU
>> on these machines...
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Bhargav Prasanna
>> <bhargavprasanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > We already had an extensive discussion about the BJP thingy on our LUG
>> list.
>> > Its really sad that such a big party should say one thing whilst doing
>> > something completely in contrast (I know. Most parties do that today.)
>> >
>> > Frankly, you cannot believe them. While they talk about FOSS, they use
>> > flash in their websites.
>> > A Firefox Tools-> Page Info -> Media tab for
>> > hypertext<colon><slash><slash>www<dot>lkadvani<dot>in yields enough
>> > information.
>> > --
>> --
>>
>
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